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Many old souls have a desire for immortality. In fact, you’re probably one of them. Does it mean you want to live forever? No, but it means you want to do something that lasts beyond your time here. The desire for immortality is part of your soul’s life plan, and like everything else in your life plan, you chose it before you were even born. It impels you to help others in some way.

How Your Soul’s Desire For Immortality Influences Your Life Purpose

Having a desire for immortality is about leaving a legacy, creating a ripple effect, or doing something that helps others fulfill their own life plan. Despite its grand title, a desire for immortality doesn’t mean you have to change the world. Martin Luther King had it. Mother Teresa, too. But so do many nurses, caregivers, and healers. One of my clients expresses her desire for immortality by helping poor immigrants find housing. There are many reasons an old soul will want to help others. It can be the result of your soul type, your missions, karma, or just old-soul altruism. The difference is that a desire for immortality involves a long-term view of things. Your soul wants the ripple effect to keep spreading, and that can mean the difference between giving someone a fish and teaching them how to fish. Many people fulfill their soul’s desire for immortality by writing a book or recording music. An architect might build an apartment block. A painter with a desire for immortality hopes her work will find a permanent spot on someone’s wall. And when our time on this planet comes to an end, and cockroaches rule the world, what will alien archaeologists find? Pottery. Talk about doing something that lasts beyond your time here. Your own desire for immortality can be played out in any number of ways. The most common sign you have it is an underlying desire (hence the title) to help improve, elevate, inspire, or better the lives of others. Simply ha

I’ve addressed the issue of spirituality and politics before but, given the current state of things in the U.S.—particularly the opposition to racist police violence being met (ironically) with racist police violence—it’s worth examining again.

We’re in the midst of the Transformation, the long-awaited shift in consciousness that will eventually take our souls to a higher level of being. Unfortunately, it’s not going to happen overnight. And not without considerable resistance from less spiritually advanced souls.

Spirituality and politics are inseparable

If it hadn’t been for spiritually conscious older souls taking action, we’d never have had the Civil Rights movement of the 60s. “Change and progress,” as Noam Chomsky once said, “are very rarely gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.”

But to be a spiritual person means more than just following a meditation practice or doing yoga. Such activities are important, and especially so during times of unrest, but they’re a means to an end, not the end itself.

Being a spiritual person means you are expressing old-soul values through actions and words all of the time, not just during times of crisis. True spirituality is about doing the work to ensure that everyone is treated equally, which is why spirituality and politics are inseparable.

From a spiritual perspective, we’re all one

When one of us is victimized by racism and violence, we’re all victimized. In the U.S., we’ve become accustomed to a system that is deeply un-spiritual. Racism and inequality are institutionalized and have always been a feature of life in this country. It makes it hard to recognize how truly dysfunctional the country is when it’s been this way since its inception.

Slavery wasn’t abolished in 1865 without the efforts of spiritually active older souls who stood up against it. Significantly, many of those who put their freedom and lives on the line didn’t have to. More than 150 years later